Gunther Eysenbach
| Medicine 2.0 - new opportunities and challenges in the provision of health information and elearning |  |
| Gunther Eysenbach | |
| Associate Professor at the Department of Health Policy Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto |
Abstract
In this keynote, Dr Eysenbach will reflect on the impact of "Medicine 2.0" approaches on learning. “Medicine 2.0” applications, services, and tools have been defined as Web-based services for health, medicine, and biomedical research, that use Web 2.0 technologies and/or semantic web and virtual reality approaches, featuring 1) social networking, 2) participation, 3) apomediation, 4) openness, and 5) collaboration. Examples are given, and opportunities and challenges are discussed.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Gunther Eysenbach MD MPH (a graduate of the University of Freiburg, Germany, and Harvard University, USA) is Editor-in-Chief and publisher of the Journal of Medical Internet Research, the #1 ranked ehealth journal, and producer of the Medicine 2.0 congress series, as well as a podcast producer. He is an Associate Professor at the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto, where he teaches and supervises PhD and Master's students in the area of eHealth and Medical Informatics, and a Senior Scientist at the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation in Toronto, where his research focuses on consumer health informatics and public health informatics. He is recognized by many as a leading scholar in health informatics.
